! 》 is the first domestic film to face Alzheimer's disease directly, and it also makes the relationship between the two mother and daughter "special". The two starring actors of the film, Wu Yanshu and Xi Meijuan, said in an interview that they chose to star in this movie because the mother-daughter relationship has become unique during the process of marching. The characters' personalities and maternal love will slowly appear, softly wrapped with sharpness, allowing the audience to feel the movingness of the two lives reflecting each other and helping each other.
"Mom! 》 tells the story of the 85-year-old mother played by Wu Yanshu and the 65-year-old daughter played by Xi Meijuan. The daughter carries guilt for her father and lives a Puritan life. Alzheimer's disease turns her into another person. The elderly mother needs to give tenacious vitality to take care of her daughter. The film gained a good reputation and box office during the Mid-Autumn Festival. "National Grandma" Wu Yanshu won the Best Actress at the 12th Beijing International Film Festival Temple of Heaven Award for this movie, but Wu Yanshu was unwilling to enjoy the honor alone. She believed that the acting skills of "daughter" Xi Meijuan fulfilled her role.
In order to show the difference between the characters of Wu Yanshu and Xi Meijuan in the family, the mother's background is an old-school intellectual and a lady with literary attainments; while the daughter is a science student, the two have many different habits and concepts in life. For example, the mother is more eccentric, but the daughter is rigorous and rigid. Wu Yanshu laughed and said that she had also discussed with the director why this mother was a little naughty at the beginning of the film, always not listening to her daughter, either scaring her daughter, or doing dangerous things, or complaining without any illness? "Actually, I am not such an unbearable mother in my life, so I don't understand the mother's "doing". Later I realized that this is a preparation for her to be awakened by life. When my daughter is sick, all the fun of the peaceful years will be lost. This mother can no longer be so willful, but will take care of her daughter in reverse. At this time, her mother's love is "ride". No matter how her daughter treats her, she will not feel bitter or tired. She must become her daughter's strongest support and will always be her spirit. God takes care of his daughter with great enthusiasm. "
Xi Meijuan also said that the external appearance of the daughter and the mother must be different, but, "The mother-daughter relationship is a native relationship, and it is the innermost essence of everyone. The greatest thing about maternal love is that it will never pursue rewards. It is because of this kind of love that is the most primitive basic point in life that can support the mother and daughter in the play. This is not easy for mothers, nor is it easy for daughters. Daughters can understand mothers' love, but sometimes because of illness Love, because of mentality, you will do some abnormal actions and even hurt your mother, but after hurting her, she will be very painful. This is a contradiction in this drama, which will cause drama and touch a deep heart. "
Xi Meijuan said that the challenge of her daughter in the film is twofold, "The first level is her inner, her physical condition, and she has such a disease. Then, she also has an external force, which is that she has a mental depression point because she has had a growth process before. Some experiences have caused her to be unkind, not very good at speaking, not very expressing, not very easy to share with others. So, will such a personality itself accelerate the development of her disease? I think this is possible, because a person who is too introverted and too good at expressing will develop in a bad direction faster after suffering from such a disease. Therefore, the challenge in our play is to always struggle with this huge development. "
"Mom! 》As the first domestic film to face Alzheimer's disease, it presents the huge destructive power brought to life by the disease. Wu Yanshu and Xi Meijuan hope that this work can attract more people to pay attention to such patients and give them more care.Wu Yanshu said that she has played three Alzheimer's patients and has some understanding of this disease. "I have visited a doctor and learned that there are many types of this disease, some are depressed, some are manic, and some are particularly happy, and the performance is different."
Xi Meijuan said that she hopes that society should not only pay attention to such patients, but also families with such patients. "In fact, when patients are on the disease, they may often be in an unconscious state of , , but for a conscious family, the burden and mental depression are more serious, just like from this movie, mother is the hardest among them, right? So, I hope that as the film receives more and more attention, everyone will give more help and comfort to the patient's family."
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
edited by Gong Lifang
